Occasional cooks: pizza - food of the gods

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Look at that oily goodness!

Despite my decided sweet tooth, pizza may well be my favourite food. 

I'm not from the school that there is no bad pizza - a pizza covered in really cheap ham is no good, and a crap base can definitely ruin the meal. 

But I also don't believe there should be too many rules about pizza. Pineapple is great. BBQ sauce is great. Ingredients not native to Italian cuisine are great. Thin crispy crust - yum. Chewy sourdough base full of air bubbles - divine. Thick doughy base - yum (although that's the style that's easiest to go wrong and end up too bready).

And I honestly can't decide if pizza is better hot or cold - I really do love both.

My favourite local, Mojo's Weird Pizza, does some, you guessed it, weird stuff. 

Fancy the Dog's Breakfast, with HP Sauce, bacon, sausage and baked beans?

Or the Go Bananas, with, yes, banana, sweet chili, cream cheese and brown sugar.

Genuinely great, the Bruschetta, cooked with mozzarella and feta, then topped after cooking with diced tomato and onion, basil and balsamic dressing.

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Lately, though, Mojo's has been too inconsistent. Order on a busy night, and your pizza arrives with lop-sided fillings and needing just a minute longer in the oven to really be cooked right.

And the good wood-fire places don't deliver, which is no good when you're feeling lazy.

But I've discovered that finally food manufacturers have worked out how to create a decent supermarket-shelf base, so I've been making pizzas at home.

My current favourite is a tuna pizza - no tomato sauce, mix up a can of tuna with some olive oil, garlic, chili flakes and seasoning, spread on the base. Top with cheese - I like mozzarella and feta and maybe some sliced tomato.

Keep meaning to try an Aussie pizza at home - that one is ham and/or bacon, cheese, tomato, and an egg.

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Next level will be to start making my own dough - if you do your own dough, let me know your recipes below.

Are you a 'the only real pizza is Napoli-style' purist, or do you like it weird?